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In popular imagination, the classic origin places for magicians are usually the highlands of Scotland, the (comparitive) wilds of the Cornish marshes, remote sanctuaries in the Pyrenees and the Alps, the glacial fastnesses of Scandinavia. But what if this were otherwise? What might precede and come of a common conception of the "secret places" being in the jungles of India, the mountains of China, the African savannah, or if you want to get really out there, the remote islands of the Pacific?
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